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Sarasota News Leader December 27, 2013 Page 107 UNITARIAN CHURCH GALLERY TO FEATURE WORKS OF DOROTHY OKRAY Every Day the World Is New, an exhibit featuring paintings by Dorothy Okray, will open on Jan. 5 and continue through Jan. 29 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota Lexow Wing Gallery, located at 3975 Fruitville Road in Sarasota, the church has announced. morning, the trees grow a little. Grass grows a little. Every morning the world is new and will never be exactly the same again. You see new things, think new thoughts, and feel new feelings ... every day. You wake up every day a little bit different. And that is what makes painting the most exciting art form … trying A reception for the artist will be held on to capture the sensation, that fresh moment Sunday, Jan. 5, from noon to 1 p.m. which exists only for the briefest instance in Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday time." through Friday and Sundays after services. The work includes award winners in pastels, Admission is free. oils and acrylics, the release points out. "I Okray is a former design executive as well as am constantly amazed by the comments of a retired United Methodist minister, a news viewers who claim a spiritual element can be release notes. "Those diverse careers inform seen in my work," says Okray in the release. her thought-provoking paintings," the release "Whatever one finds ... I love painting them. I adds. Okray says in the release, "Every never thought I would find the success I have Ocean by Dorothy Okray. Contributed image